Author: Richard

The Resistance Exhibition Tour launched in May 2024 and continues its nationwide events until September 2025.

The RESISTANCE exhibition is showing at:

SWINDON COMMUNITY HUB, 36 The Parade, Swindon SN1 1BA (September 13, 12pm-7pm)

SOHO STUDIOS, 2 Archer Street, London W1D 7AP (August 22 7pm-11pm)

BRISTOL SPARKS, 78 Broadmead, Bristol BS1 3DS (August 16 12pm–9pm, 17 August 12pm-6pm))

Further venues to be announced.

Curated by a collective of artists, archivists, and frontline activists, RESISTANCE explores uprisings, occupations, peace camps, and street demonstrations — from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and the poll tax riots to the anti-roads movement, Reclaim the Streets, Black Lives Matter, and beyond. The exhibition honours the creativity, courage, and collective energy of those who have dared to disrupt systems of power.

Featuring images by acclaimed photographers, the exhibition blends documentary realism with the raw immediacy of grassroots media. Many of the works on display have never been exhibited before, offering an intimate portrait of resistance often absent from mainstream narratives.

For further information, tour updates, or to host the exhibition in your community, contact:

historyofresistance@gmail.com

On February 25 2025 we presented a cut-down version of the portable exhibition at the Green Events and Innovations Conference in Royal Lancaster London, hosted by A Greener Future.

𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 comes to Soho, London, showcasing more than 40 years of UK protest and popular resistance photos, videos and artefacts from a wide variety of social movements.

From Friday 4 November to Sunday 13 November, every day from 12pm – 8pm.

PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 3 October 6pm-10pm

Black Door, Soho Studios, 17-19 Archer Street, London W1D 7AP

From squatting in 1980s, to the anti roads campaigns of the 90s to present day Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and more. This immersive exhibition will also feature workshops on art activism, Non-Violent Direct Action, and how to archive precious ephemeral resistance materials online.

The exhibition is curated by artist-activists with decades of experience in the UK’s social change movements, in collaboration with a whole host of current campaigns and organisations.

Alongside the exhibition, campaigns, organizations and creatives will be hosting a schedule of events, talks, trainings and workshops. Including performance artist Mark McGowan, AKA the Artist Taxi Driver (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=442941278287) and more to come soon!

“𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 is doing something really important in capturing the history of grassroots social movements in the UK…. told by the people who were there. It is an innovative model of collective archiving and exhibition-making (which) gathers together a dynamic mix of documents, images and know-how that will serve as a resource for present and future movements. It is evidence that you can change the world from below, by collective, organised disobedience.”

Catherine Flood – curator of “Disobedient Objects”, Victoria & Albert Museum.

If you’re a photographer, film maker, artist or activist and you’d like to contribute to the Resistance Exhibition, get in touch at historyofresistance@gmail.com